Forbidden Objects

by Maggie Davis

Georgia’s tarnished past unleashes an otherworldly evil in this “marvelous novel . . . southern gothic at its best” (Charles L. Grant, author of the Black Oak series). Lazarus was his name, an evil which "rose from the dead" off a slave ship to control the Georgia plantation with fear and the the evil instruments of conjure. Does his evil and his anger extend beyond the grave beyond space and time? Elizabeth Franklin Jefferson, called "Frankie" by her friends, is a descendant of slave owners and sensitive to the world beyond. But now Frankie and her cousin, Julian, have awakened an evil long thought put to Lazarus and his deadly obeah. Now everyone in Frankie's family has started to die—will Frankie be next? 

Genres: Horror

211 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1986

About the author

aka M. H. Davis, Maggie Daniels, Katherine Deauxville

Maggie Hill was born in Norfolk, Virginia, USA, daughter of George Blair and Dorothy (Mason) Hill. She also writes under the pen names of M. H. Davis, Maggie Davis, Maggie Daniels, and Katherine Deauxville, is the author of over 25 published novels. She is a former feature writer for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, copywriter for Young & Rubican in New York, and assistant in research to the chairman of the department of psychology at Yale University. She taught three writing courses at Yale, and was a two-time guest writer/artist at the International Cultural center in Hammamet, Tunisia. She has written for the Georgia Review, Cosmopolitan, Ladies Home Journal, Good Housekeeping, Holiday and Venture magazines. She is the winner of four Reviewer’s Choice Awards and one Lifetime Achievement Award for romantic comedy from Romantic Times Magazine, and received the Silver Pen Award from Affaire de Coeur Magazine. She is also listed in Who's Who 2000.

Reviews

[Peter · Rating 3 out of 5]

Well, the author knows how to write but I missed the story. There were some elements of horror but you could have made much more out of the exotic southern setting. Okay, it was a fluent read but I was expecting more of it.

[Stacia · Rating 1 out of 5]

I was not impressed by this horror novel (if it was a horror novel). All of the side details were impressive, but as with so many time travel stories, the end was the beginning all over again. This was particularly frustrating as the individual scenes and plot points were very good. Read if you enjoy unreliable narrators and southern gothics conscious of the horror and burden of slavery.

[Bessie Sullivan · Rating 1 out of 5]

I'm not sure that I understood this book at all. It went back and forth in time with no warning, even between paragraphs. Still not clear on what it was trying to say.